Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West Injdies. Last week the Caribbean suddenly became still under a windless sky. Seabirds wheeled inland, crying. Small boats with flapping, empty sails were sculled to harbor. On the Virgin Islands natives took to their homes in the hills, jabbered warnings to each other. Voodoo priests crept about selling charms against death. Everywhere faces looked southeast...
...Alfred Agache is singularly unimpressed by Manhattan's sky line. M. Agache is French, an architect and employed by the city of Rio de Janeiro to beautify...
...last act exhibits further highlights in the sky pilot's hypocritical career. He is the Rev. Dr. Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...
...voyage for the New York Times. She told of one rough afternoon and night: "The ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large, while our little boat had shrunk in size since we left New York. At 4:30 a. m. heavy squalls struck us unexpectedly with terrific force and the wind, with a velocity of forty to fifty miles, made...
...John Coolidge went to Superior one cay, played golf, went shopping, returned to the lodge with the following phonograph records: "Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky," "Louisiana," "Dixie Dan," "Golden Gate," "I Can't Do Without You," "Think of Me Thinking of You," "Beloved, I Wonder...